Retirement Planning: A comprehensive guide about how to do it

Retirement planning is important. Why? Because this is what is going to give us financial independence after we’ve retired from our jobs/work. The planning will ensure the availability of the required funds when it’s time to retire. In India, the majority of service-class retired people depend on annuities to take care of their cash flow…

Consumer Spending: Where do people spend money on? Spending Habits [India]

There is an interesting report of World Bank on consumer spending habits of developing nations. It also gives detailed numbers on where do people spend money in India. A report like this gives a nice visualisation of how Indians (and other population across the globe) spend their money. Though the report is dated 2010 but…

Financial Health Score: How An Individual Can Improve The Score

One’s present personal financial health is built upon how money was handled in the past. Better the money is handled today, healthier will be the future financial health score. When money is spent only to buy things, it can add nothing to one’s financial health score. Instead, it affects negatively. So, how to handle money?…

Why Exchange Traded Funds (ETF in India) is a Great Investment Vehicle? Who should invest in ETFs?

Who will buy ETF in India? These are mainly those investors who want to buy stocks, but lacks the expertise. Who are these people? These are people who do not know how to screen and analyze stocks. [Check a list of top rated ETFs at the bottom of this post] Why screening and stock analysis…

Which is the Best Investment After Retirement? How to Plan the Investment of Retirement Corpus?

There are several alternatives available for investing money in India. But the problem is that, investment after retirement must be done in a specific way. Hence, the composition of ‘investment portfolio’ of a retired person is different from other people. What is the difference? A retired person plans to include those assets in portfolio which…